Archive for the ‘university’ Category

Smartmob Leicester.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

As AJCann wrote about earlier - we used to Seesmic to arrange a "smartmob" (or "coffee" for those who are not convinced by social media terminology) to discuss what was proposed yesterday. In the past - from holding various moderator roles and reveling in teen angst as a Livejournal "early ...

University of Leicester and DeMontfort University Social Media Proposal.

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Why write when I've already proposed it on Seesmic? I'm looking to hear from anybody who lives in Leicester (or the surrounding area) about this. The abundance of us who are coming out of the woodwork and grouping around these new, exciting social media applications shows how we can actually make ...

Pondering about Twitter…

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

(Taking over from Alan, who has banned himself from blogging about it... spreading enthusiasm...) Whilst in the jacuzzi (Oh the wonders of being a grad student...) with my friend/housemate/occasional dissertation buddy, Stuart, I was explaining the excitement I had for Twitter and how some of the best discussion was occurring upon ...

Old School Internet. (aka books and stuff.)

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Today I am forcing myself to get down to some "proper" background reading for both my dissertation and the two remaining Masters essays I have left to complete. I'm actually reading such things as "books" - a novel concept where somebody has printed off the Internet and stuck it all ...

C.V.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

The top of my priority list at the moment is preparing my "academic" C.V. for a teaching assistant job at the University next year. At the same time, I am applying for a job as a subwarden at the halls of residence in order to lighten the financial load for ...